Category: Vacation
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Vacation long ago on Orcas Island
I’m on a posting roll here, I can’t post my end of year wrap-up with any outstanding posts to do, so let’s get this done! Orcas Island. In the San Juan Islands and accessible only by boat. We rented a house way up on a hill with Rebecca’s mother and step-father to get away from town and fireworks for the 4th of July. Lovely…
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Christmas in the Carolinas
Our first travel in two years brought us to see my family in southern North Carolina. Weather was in the high 60s, Mia was in a great mood (minus the first three hours of our return flight), and there were cookies for days (as evidenced by my +5lbs). Boats, beaches, skateboards, cuddles, cards, Mancala, Jackbox, goats, alpacas, kayaks, the splits, and a first haircut.…
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A Palm Springs Christmas
Well, kind of. We attempted to depart Portland early Christmas morning, but the guy who ran the jet bridge into our plane had other plans. After a two hour delay, our flight was cancelled. We were rerouted to San Francisco and an eight hour layover. We finally arrived at our hotel at 11pm as opposed to 11am. Alaska made it somewhat alright by refunding…
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The SE Asia Trip
With me being laid off the day before Rebecca was planning to announce a career change, it was clearly a a chance for a big vacation. Before I landed my new position we had bought flights in to Hanoi and out of Bangkok 23 days later. It was going to happen. Since college, I’d been promising to visit an old college friend in Bangkok,…
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Race and Vacation: Tahoe and Crater Lake
The Race Remember that time I nearly showed up in Tahoe for a race I didn’t sign up for? That just happened. Except luckily the race doesn’t sell out and I was able to register the night before. Had the race sold out, this would have been a double whammy as I was fortunate enough to use the Bicycleattorney.com team van (team is technically Prestovelo, but nobody…
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Virginia Quickie
While it was a quick Friday to Tuesday trip, and the Race for Hope the primary objective, I managed to bounce around and accomplish quite a bit. The hardest thing of having moved across the country aside from being so far from family has been being so far from my closest friends. They’re all pretty much married now and popping out kids, and I…